Colson Whitehead Quotes

We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.

I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself.

I want to not do anything I've done before. That can come in any form.

Mainly, what I like to do is keep things varied and not get in a rut, not tell the same stories over and over.

I always naturally want to change things up if I possibly can. I never want to write a sequel to a book. I don't want to go back over things. I don't want to adapt my own books for the screen. That's something that's important to me, the keeping it fresh.

Who wants to see the same play again? I certainly don't want to write the same play again and again.

I wouldn't want to make the same film every time. I get easily bored.

For me, I'm just trying to keep it fun, keep it interesting, not get stuck on the same sound, the same wave for too long.

If I wanted to do the same thing every day, I would have gone into a different profession.

I didn't want to write the same book over and over.

I don't like to stick to one formula. That gets boring. I get bored, so I want to try different ways of getting inside something.

I'm always constantly trying to find stuff that's different. It's a way to keep me on my toes and keep me interested and keep me excited about work.

Every time I get something that's different than the last thing, I get excited. I don't want to play the same thing, every single time.

Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.

Nothing I've done is like anything else I've done before.

Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I've mentioned, of course, are original, but it's important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world. And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can't really depend upon what you've done with previous books.

People get tired of the same old sound. They want something new.

Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different, ... I always want to find different ways to do something

I try my best to find variety in what I'm doing, but there's a lot out there that's the same.

I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

I've always really enjoyed writing different things because I get bored very easily.

Always do something different from the others.